William Medows

William Medows (31 December 1738-14 November 1813) was a General of the British Army during the American Revolutionary War and Third Anglo-Mysore War.

Biography
William Medows was born on 31 December 1738 to an aristocratic family, and he entered the British Army in 1756 with the 50th Regiment of Foot. Medows saw action in the Seven Years' War, being stationed in Germany until 1764. In 1775, he was sent to the 55th Regiment of Foot and distinguished himself at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777 and the Battle of St. Lucia in 1778. In 1780, he was promoted to colonel of the 89th Regiment of Foot and was sent to fight against Mysore in India at the end of the American Revolutionary War. From September 1788 to January 1790, he was the Governor of Bombay and commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army, and in 1790 he became commander of the Madras Army. In this post, Medows fought in the Third Anglo-Mysore War against the Mysoreans, and he performed poorly at the siege of Seringapatam in 1792, in which Charles Cornwallis was slightly wounded in a hard-fought victory. Medows failed to shoot himself three times, but Cornwallis never blamed him; Medows gave his prize money from the war to his men, and he was briefly commander-in-chief of Ireland in 1801 before dying in 1813 in Bath.